No Left Turns

Abducted reporters story

This is James Brandons (a Brit reporter in Iraq) first hand account of being abducted and then released. And here is the Belmont Clubs comment on it: "Theres a particular kind of exhilaration that people who have come out whole, not just physically but morally whole, from a deep crisis, justifiably feel. Yet to have no secret place wherein one stooped unseen to shame or sin, as Guest once wrote, is also to be aware of how near one came to failing the test. Really brave men understand cowardice better than most. Brandons account unconsciously mirrors the bravery, ruthlessness, modesty and humanity of a man who has seen the Elephant, and rode away on it."

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